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pbray ([personal profile] pbray) wrote2006-02-20 10:16 am

Weekend roundup

Back from Boskone which was lots of fun, but unfortunately didn't get to hang out with friends as much as I wanted. Saw [livejournal.com profile] matociquala and [livejournal.com profile] truepenny only briefly to say "Hi!", as we kept meeting while on the way to panels/readings/appointments etc. Had a nice chat with [livejournal.com profile] arcaedia, got to meet Neil Clarke [livejournal.com profile] clarkesworld, saw [livejournal.com profile] tryslora who recommended a new author to me and admired the custom printed M&M's, chatted briefly with Walter Hunt about his new project, had a fantastic dinner Saturday night with [livejournal.com profile] wen_spencer and Ann Cecil, saw [livejournal.com profile] rolanni and [livejournal.com profile] kinzel and commiserated over the printing problems which meant their new book wasn't ready for Boskone, and saw many others whose names/LJ ids have slipped my mind.

Handed out many postcards for THE FIRST BETRAYAL, as well as lizards and the M&M's. Overall a great weekend, but a tad rushed and no time to actually see Boston. Furthest I got from the hotel/Prudential center was a walk over to Turner Fisheries for dinner.

[livejournal.com profile] jennifer_dunne and [livejournal.com profile] jpsorrow proved admirable traveling companions, sharing the long drive and the hotel room with grace. Sadly they discovered a new game to play while visiting the game room, so I can see more game nights in my immediate future.

Bought many books from Larry Smith, including Patricia Briggs' new urban fantasy MOON CALLED which immediately sucked me in.

Came back to the day job to find everyone in crisis mode--the automated forecast process on Friday didn't work so everyone is manually cranking numbers and I'm trying to troubleshoot the database. Fun.

[identity profile] libwitch.livejournal.com 2006-02-20 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I just started Moon Called - about 10 pages in and liking it already

[identity profile] mizkit.livejournal.com 2006-02-20 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I saw MOON CALLED on ... Amazon, or something, the other day, and thought it had a fantastic cover. I did not, however, try going any further than that, because I've discovered the problem with *writing* urban fantasy is that I cannot *read* urban fantasy. I figure in about eight years I'll have a lot of catch-up reading to do...

[identity profile] clarkesworld.livejournal.com 2006-02-20 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Great meeting you and thanks again for signing all those books!

-Neil